HISTORICAL FACTS
Special Education
By: Grisselda Moreno
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Edouard Seguin
Taught pupils with Developed teaching
hearing impairments to methods for intellectual
use manual signs disability; sensorimotor
symbols activities
1600 1787 1784 1800 1829
Pedro Ponce de Leon Valentin Hauy Louis Braille
Taught deaf pupils to Founder of a school for Created a raised dot
speak, read, and write the blind & created method for reading & a
& created oralism a raised print/embossed stylus for writing
form of lip reading books to educate
Eglantyne Jebb
Rise of advocacy Social reformer who
groups; Council for wrote the first draft of
Exceptional Children the Declaration of the
Rights of the Child
1897 1922 1924 1928 1950
Civil Rights Movement
National Education Dr. Jacob Bolotin
Brown VS Topeka
Association (NEA)
Board
establishes a section; First congenitally blind
Free Appropriate
teachers of children man to receive a
Public Education
with disabilities medical license
(FAPE) is founded
John F. Kennedy Hobson VS Hansen
created the Standardized tests
Presidents Panel on discriminated against
certain minority and
Mental Retardation
income groups
1950 1960 1965 1968 1968
Elementary & Secondary Helen Keller
National Association First deaf/blind person
Education Act
for Retarded Children to graduate from
First federal support for
is founded college
public education (lost sight/hearing at
Known as ‘The Arc’
(P.L. 89-10) 19months)
Rehabilitation Act Rowley VS H. Hudson District
Prohibits discrimination Children with disabilities has
against individuals with a right to individualize
disabilities instructional plan &
(P.L. 93-112) necessary supports
1972 1973 1975 1982 1989
Frederick VS Thomas Individuals with Timothy VS Rochester District
Children with disabilities Disabilities Education Schools must provide
are not receiving Act (IDEA) by law programs/services meeting
appropriate education guarantees services to the needs of a child even if
if teacher s are not children with disabilities it appears ineffective
qualified
Temple Grandin George W. Bush
Dr. of animal science with No Child Left Behind Act
high-functioning autism Major reform to focus on
inventor of the “hug academic achievement of
machine” to calm students & qualifications of
hypersensitive persons teachers (P.L. 107-110)
1990 1990 1997 2001 2004
Americans with Individuals with Disabilities Individuals with Disabilities
Disabilities Act Education Act Edu. Improvement Act
By law prohibits Provide major retooling & Modifies program process
discrimination on basis expansion of services for of changes affecting
disability students & their families school discipline, due
(P.L. 101-336) (P.L. 105-17) process, & evaluations
(P.L. 108-446)
Americans with Disabilities
Act Amendments
Expand statutory
interpretation of disability
affording individuals
greater with protections
(P.L. 110-325)
2009 2008 2010
Rosa’s Law
Barker VS Riverside County
Removes mental retardations&
Anti-discrimination laws
mentally retarded from federal
must also protect those
health, education, & labor
who stand up for children
statues to intellectual disability
with disabilities
(P.L. 111-256)
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